Futures Industry Disaster Recovery Test Briefings June 6,14, 2006 DR III Prepared and Moderated by Tellefsen and Company, L.L.C.
AGENDA I. Introduction and Welcome II. III. IV. Testing Goals and Objectives Review of Testing Protocol Securities Industry Association/Bond Market Association Test Initiative Update V. Member Firm Readiness Discussion VI. Timeline and Next Steps 2
I. INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME Our Panelists Today: CFE: Todd Furney CBOT: Susan Brown CME: Karl Weinberg NBOT: NCC: NMEX: Ian Nelson Brian Sayler Eric Aldrich TCC: James Woods Eurex: Todd Rich OCC: Dave Engaldo SIA: Howard Sprow 3
II. TESTING GOALS AND OBJECTIVES Test the basic ability to conduct business (order entry through clearing) from alternate/back-up facilities simultaneously. Test disaster recovery capabilities among futures commission merchants, back-office service providers, recovery services providers, trading system vendors, clearing banks, market data vendors. Test the connectivity between exchanges, clearinghouses and their constituents back- up facilities ( back-up to back-up ), and confirm member firms ability to send/receive information to/from their back-up facilities/interfaces. 4
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES Continued Enter a small but meaningful sampling of orders and trades, carried out by a limited number of essential personnel from alternate locations. Confirm the receipt/transmission of information to/from clearing members. Transmit key clearing reports and information to clearing firms to verify round-trip communications. 5
III. REVIEW OF TESTING PROTOCOL Exchanges will specify products available for order entry/trading. Except for NBOT, all exchanges will use their electronic trading venues for the test. Firms will use test accounts. Testing will take place between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm EDT. Member firms will confirm connectivity with their respective exchanges/clearinghouses: Pre-test connectivity test dates will be established. Firms will execute a pre-defined script of orders. Exchanges will generate fill reports on the orders. 6
CBOE FUTURES EXCHANGE Will use production CBOEdirect ETS. Trade entry via scripts: Products to traded: VIX futures. Pre-test requirement- users must register via the FIA website and establish back-up connectivity to CFE via the CBOE API Client Relations Group. Data will be edited to modify the trade date: Order entry systems will reflect October 13th trade date. Will accept either October 13 th or October 14 th trade date on order input. Trades to be transmitted from CBOEdirect to Clearing Corp. back-up site. 7
CBOE FUTURES EXCHANGE (Cont d) The Clearing Corp. will transmit end-of-day files to Options Clearing Corp. back-up. Receive OCC data services from OCC back-up. OCC to produce gross position adjustments, position adjustments and transfers. Transmit trade confirmations from Clearing Corp. back-up to member firms back-up bookkeeping system. 8
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE Will use ecbot production trading system via back-up site. Firms must register via the FIA website. Members will be allowed to logon to check connectivity CBOT will inject scripted trades in trade handling system via backup site. Injected trades will be processed through to CME for clearing. Trade date will be October 13th. Buy-side trades will have customer origins and sell-side trades will have house origins. 9
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE (Cont d) Firms will receive TREX formatted confirmation trade records: Viewable via CME s Internet-based Electronic Trade Poster (ETP). Firm submitted trades will not be included in the test. Ability to submit other record types via CME network: EFPs. Change records. These records will not be further processed by CME. Confirmation that records have been received by verifying acknowledgement records have been sent by CME clearing systems. 10
CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE Will use GLOBEX via remote backup site. Firms must pre-register via the FIA s web portal. Verify firm connectivity: All GLOBEX Markets will be in Pre-Opening state. Can use either October 13 th or October 14 th trade dates. All fills will be sent back to the Firms with the trade date of the 13 th Firms can send a test order in any market they wish. No trades will occur during the Pre-Opening period. Firms will verify connectivity and can send/receive messages. 11
CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (Cont d) Order entry via test script as follows: Enter bids as customer and offers as house at the settlement price in the market you choose. Enter about 10 trades. Firms may use any market they want. We do recommend that Firms send orders in on Floor Only Contracts, like the SPZ7 that will be listed on GLOBEX for the test. Firms may receive crossed trades and/or trades with other counterparties. Trade reporting to firms back office systems: Should be verified and then deleted. Enter ex-pit transactions via CME portal URL. 12
CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (Cont d) Change FTP IP address to CME s remote site IP address to connect to CME FTP server via RDC IP: Using Friday s data, FTP the PCS and Large Trader reports. CME staff will verify receipt and then delete them. CME will transmit Friday s Trade Register and SPAN files. Firms will verify receipt of these, delete them and contact the GCC to recap the test results. 13
CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (Cont d) Connect to RDC URL and enter a block trade for: 5000 EDH @9740.0 CME staff will verify receipt of the block trades and then delete them. Contact CME Clearing Support (CCS) team at (312) 207-2525 to obtain CME Production IP address, RDC IP address or RDC URL address. Switch back to CME production site IP address at test conclusion. 14
THE CLEARING CORP. Will test from Clearing Corp. back-up site. Members must pre-register via the FIA website. Firms will verify connectivity via a ping test from their back-up site : Will receive successful log in message. Previous day s clearing reports will be available for firms to retrieve to their back-up processing sites: Match off files. Report files. SPAN files. PCS, large trader and/or ex-pit transactions will not be accepted. 15
EUREX AG Will use the production Eurex ETS, matching engine located in Frankfurt. Members must pre-register via the FIA web site. Firms should confirm all software versions at their primary sites (including ISV, proprietary and exchange software applications) are also running at their back-up site. Firms will conduct a connection test, and can do so from any/all of their locations: Firms will receive log-in message to confirm connectivity and successful application functionality No order entry will be permitted. Contact Technical Help Desk at 312-544-1200 with any questions. 16
NEW ORK BOARD OF TRADE NEW ORK CLEARING CORP. Will use back-up trading floor and back-up EOR facilities. Futures and options order entry via order entry scripts: Sugar #11 and Cotton Trade date will be October 13 th. Firms must register via the FIA website. Order entry via: NBOT EOR. Clearing member order routing. Phone orders to back-up trading floor. NBOT EOR to NBOT s back-up trading floor Managed by Securities Dealing Systems (SDS). Will require change in EOR IP address. 17
NEW ORK BOARD OF TRADE/NEW ORK CLEARING CORP. (Cont d) Order routing to NBOT back-up trading floor by phone. Clearing members will call the phone numbers they use to enter orders to the NEA trading floor. Phones will forward to the LIC back-up facility. NBOT floor will be staffed by NBOT floor operations personnel, who will answer phones and take orders from clearing members. Test cases TIPS activity: Clearing members will enter ex-pit transactions from script. Trades shown on script will be loaded in TIPS at start of test. Clearing members will accept transactions in TIPS. 18
NEW ORK BOARD OF TRADE/NEW ORK CLEARING CORP. (Cont d) TIPS intra-day files will be available via File Transfer (FTP) platform. Firms will FTP PCS and Large Trader Files to NCC back-up site: Firms will use production files from October 13th trade date. NCC will generate end-of-day files: Match off file available through FTP. SPAN file (to be available through CME SPAN web site) ECS clearing system & ereports will be running in back up Data Center - transparent to users. Help Desk staff will be available at helpdesk@nybot.com or 212 201 8898. 19
NEW ORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE Will use GLOBEX ETS and ClearPort TMS systems. Trade date will be October 16 th. Firms must pre-register via FIA website. Questions may be directed to NMEX Director of Business Continuity BCP@NMEX.COM. Test environment will be monitored and managed via conference bridge set up for the test. Bridge will act as test squawk box monitored by NMEX staff at back up emergency operations center All problems will be brought up via bridge (taken off-line if necessary) Test will be directed and managed via the bridge. Order entry will be via scripted trades entered into system by NMEX staff. 20
NEW ORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (Cont d) Production accounts and products will be used. Production data will be backed up and restored over test data. Test data will be saved for subsequent review. Detailed test scripts describing what the firms are expected to do and when to do it will be created and provided to registered firms prior to the test date (first week in September). The backup dial-up (RJE) numbers will be re-sent to registered firms the same week. Test links will be provided for back up systems (C21, CM download). DR RJE numbers will also be available to connect to the backup site (these have already been provided to all firms with connectivity to the primary site). 21
NEW ORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE (Cont d) Firms to connect to NMEX via their back up sites or identify if they are not connected via a back up site. The Exchange will enter trades at DR site for allocation (giveups) to registered participating firms. NMEX Clearing will process all end-of-day reports: Produce 591 Member Trade Register report. Data/Report Transfer Members will upload the previous day s PCS and Large Trader reports via RJE backup lines. Firms will retrieve clearing reports and data from Member Trade Register report and CM Download site. NMEX will confirm report data against trades from test script. 22
EXCHANGE AND CLEARING HOUSE TESTING MATRIX CFE CBOT CME TCC EUREX AG NBOT & NCC NMEX Back-Up Trading Floor Will Be Open N N N N/A N/A Systems To Be Used CBOEdirect Production ecbot Production GLOBEX Production B/U Eurex Production EOR B/U B/U Members Will Verify Connectivity Via Ping Test N Successful Login From Members DR Site Trade Date* Oct 13 or Oct 14 Oct 13 Oct 13 or Oct 14* N/A N/A Oct 13 Oct 16 Receipt of 10 Orders From Member Firms Via Pre-Defined Scripts Of Orders Phone Or EOR/Member Order Routing Venues N N/A N Transmit 10 Fill Reports to Member Firms Generated By Exchange Floor Staff Back to Firms N/A N Receipt of 10 Ex-Pit Trade Reports From Member Firms Via Pre-Defined Scripts N N N N Receipt of PCs and Large Trader Reports From Member Firms Dependent on SIAC + N N Download of Previous Day Clearing Reports To Member Firms Match Off File Report File Span File Depend on OCC Depend on OCC Depend on OCC N N N N/A All Production Systems Are Restored & Test Data/Parameters Re-set CBOE Futures Exchange and CME will accept either October 13 or October 14 trade dates on order input.. + CME will accept previous day (October 13) large trader report information. NMEX will use October 16 trade date 23
PRE-TEST COMMUNICATIONS TESTING SCHEDULE August 5: NMEX August 12: NBOT September 9: CFE, CME, OCC September 16: NMEX, TCC September 30: CFE, CME, NBOT, OCC 24
IV. SECURITIES INDUSTR ASSOCIATION TEST INITIATIVE UPDATE Securities Industry Association and Bond Market Association joint October 14 th industry test; second annual test. Potential impact on futures industry test initiative. Objective to exercise and verify the ability of firms, markets and industry utilities to operate through an emergency, using backup sites, recovery facilities and backup communications capabilities across the industry. Test of market connectivity with some processing interactions, not full internal systems of firms and exchanges. 25
TEST SCOPE Test components include: Equities DTCC Fixed Income Market Data (new in 2006) Options Payment Systems (new in 2006) Futures Transmit test orders to markets, receive simulated execution reports and conduct certain settlement and payment interactions. Conduct test transactions with payment systems. Receive and verify market data through connections at their backup sites. The SIA will compile and publish aggregate test results based on input from exchanges. Results for individual participants will remain strictly confidential. 26
TEST FORMAT Test hours will be between 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. EST on 10/14. Exchanges and markets will provide time for pretest setup prior to the test windows. Submit two orders for each of several designated symbols on each exchange/market using real symbols and real accounts. Receive execution reports from the exchanges. Conduct specified interactions with DTCC and payment entities. Verify market data applications from backup sites Pricing data and symbols to be used for each market will be provided to participants prior to the test. 27
PARTICIPANTS Equities New ork Stock Exchange American Stock Exchange NASDAQ Philadelphia Stock Exchange SIAC Options American Stock Exchange Chicago Board Options Exchange International Securities Exchange Pacific Exchange Philadelphia Stock Exchange Boston Options Exchange Options Clearing Corp. Fixed Income Alternative Trading Systems Bloomberg BondDesk TradeWeb MarketAxess The Municenter Inter-Dealer Brokers espeed ICAP Clearing Banks Bank of New ork JP Morgan Chase Clearing - DTCC Omgeo (TradeSuite) Payment Systems Fedwire CHIPS Market Data Bloomberg Thomson Financial esignal Reuters Data Transmission Network Telekurs FT Interactive Data Service Bureaus ADP (BPS, ICI, SIS) CRI Thomson Transaction Services SunGard Phase 3 SunGard Brass Royal Blue Lava Trading 28
MARKET DATA VENDORS As part of the SIA test, a number of major market data vendors have committed to support and participate in the test: Bloomberg DTN esignal FT Interactive Data Reuters Telekurs Thomson Financial Firms will receive and verify market data via connections at their back up sites. 29
Test Participation: TEST REQUIREMENTS The test is open to all securities firms providing they have pre-tested communications links from the backup locations they will use during the test through to the exchange and industry utilities sites. Back Up Sites/Communications: The objective of the test is to have all participants operate from their backup locations to the greatest degree possible. It is intended that firms will activate backup data centers, operations and trading sites. Test Staffing Support: Each participating organization will determine the number of employees necessary to conduct the test. There is no minimum or maximum staff size but, in keeping with the intent of the test, it is suggested that each firm assign some staff to backup data centers, operations and trading sites. 30
On Line Test Registration: An online registration system will be available on the SIA website in July. Registrations must be submitted by close of business Friday, 9/8/2006. Service Bureau Participants: Service Bureaus such as ADP (BPS, ICI, SIS), CRI, Thomson Transaction Services, SunGard Phase 3, SunGard Brass, Royal Blue and Lava Trading are expected to participate. Clients of these service bureaus may participate providing that they have tested connectivity to the service bureau backup sites prior to the test date. Regulators and the Media: Regulators will not participate directly in the test but, of course, have a significant interest in the overall results. The press is not permitted to observe the conduct of the test. 31
TEST INSTRUCTIONS Detailed documentation can be found on the SIA website: http://www.sia.com/business_continuity/html/testing06.html 32
QUESTIONS ON SIA/BMA TESTING Overall Test Initiative, Equities or Payments: Howard Sprow, SIA, 12-618-0548, hsprow@sia.com Fixed Income: Joe Sack, TBMA, 646-637-9265, jsack@bondmarkets.com Options: Dave Engaldo, OCC, 312-322-2002, dengaldo@theocc.com DTCC: Cliff Testa, DTCC, 212-855-2690, ctesta@dtcc.com Service Bureaus and Market Data: Manisha Kulkarni, FIF, 312-953 9228, kulkarni@fif.com 33
V. MEMBER FIRM READINESS Discussion with member firms as to the state of their readiness: Back-up systems/communications links. Order entry and routing. Market Data. Give up processing. Clearance and settlement. Use of third party service providers. Major issues or concerns. 34
VII. TIMELINE AND NEXT STEPS June July: Aug. Sept. Oct. - Exchanges formally announce October 14 th date to membership. - Exchanges notify key service providers, market data vendors and recovery service providers of the test. - FIA opens online web portal for firm test registration. - Bi weekly calls with Steering Committee. - Develop first draft of test scripts for review. - Bi-weekly calls with Steering Committee. - Finalize and distribute test scripts. - Bi-weekly calls with Steering Committee. - Pre-test ping testing commences. - Symposium meetings in Chicago and New ork. - Weekly calls with Steering Committee. - Pre-test ping testing. - Weekly calls with all. - Test on Saturday October 14 th. - Post mortem review of test results. 35